Once and possibly future presidential candidate Rick Santorum paid a visit to the Texas Capitol today as the Legislature neared final passage of one of the most restrictive abortion laws in Amerian history.

Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator and staunch abortion foe, wasted no time criticizing the attention that Fort Worth state senator Wendy Davis received after her filibuster of the legislation during the previous special session of the Legislature. Santorum said that the media only gave her the time of day after she took ” an extreme point of view by any stretch of the imagination.”

In his remarks, Santorum referred to Kermit Gosnell, the man who killed seven babies after they were born in his abortion clinic, as one of the “things that happen when we try to hide the dirty little secret of what abortion really is in this country”

Santorum, joined by Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, said the bill is not as convoluted as people are making it out to be.

“You’re trying to say, oh this isn’t about this, it’s about something else,” he said. “The bill is what the bill says it is.”

When speaking of his premature child who died two hours after being born at 20 weeks, Santorum became emotional and began to tear up.